Channel Seven sourced images of a grieving family from Facebook as part of a report into the sentencing of a convicted murderer.  A complaint regarding the use of these images was dismissed by the ACMA.

Search giant Google is ready to lift the curtain on its 90-day-trialled social network, Google+, allowing all gmail and non-gmail users to subscribe, but limiting one of its most interesting applications to Android users only.

A new and initially photo-based social network service called Path goes against the practice of amassing hundreds or thousands of 'friends' by limiting each participants' links to just 50.

Mates don’t let mates be superficial according to a new Facebook application branded by Australia’s most popular beer, VB.  Australians are becoming increasingly superficial according to a new study, we need an application and our friends to save us

Too many people are finding, to their cost, that the things they said on social network sites come back to haunt them later in life.  It's bad enough when such things are self-inflicted, but there is a growing tide of Status Jacking, whereby login credentials are stolen or hacked and fake or malicious messages are posted.

Public broadcaster SBS will launch a social networking site for Chinese speakers by the end of the year. Intended as a pilot service, the company hopes to follow with other language sites in the future as it seeks to offer a venue for more foreign language content and community information.

Will there end up being a big stink over Apple’s attempt to create a social music network inside of iTunes, or will Ping bring Apple the social networking buzz Google craves but can’t get?

A  Facebook privacy protest group claims that their call for ‘Quit Facebook Day’ resulted in over 30,000 users cancelling their accounts on the social network.

If you struggle to pick from the many thousands of apps available for the iPhone and iPod touch, an app called Appfinder may assist.

Facebook, Twitter and other social based internet systems saw massive increases in usage through 2009.  Despite having some of the best weather for getting outside, Australians lead the world in spending time on social networks according to The Nielsen Company.